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Defence firms must agree to woke conditions such as 'fighting climate change' before they can clinch multi-million-pound deals from the Ministry of Defence, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.In the latest outbreak of Whitehall wokery, the MoD requires companies seeking cyber defence contracts to 'tackle eco-inequality' as part of the agreements.The contracts are governed by 'key performance indicators' that were quietly published on Christmas Day and are dictated by the department's 'social value model'.Priorities include 'wellbeing' and 'economic equality', and if suppliers do not meet them, they face having their contracts ripped up, being 'named and shamed' and even disqualified from future work. Last night, Alex Burghart MP, Tory Cabinet Office spokesman, said: 'Across Whitehall, billions of pounds of public contracts have been quietly captured by a woke agenda.'While our adversaries are rearming, Labour has made 'tackling eco-inequality' a key performance indicator for defence contracts.'It is completely unserious and at this rate, we'll end up with Net Zero defences.'Mandarins claim the new priorities ensure public money 'yields wider societal and economic benefits'. Defence firms must agree to woke conditions such as 'fighting climate change' before they can clinch multi-million-pound deals from the Ministry of Defence, the Mail on Sunday can reveal Last night, Alex Burghart MP, Tory Cabinet Office spokesman, claimed a 'woke agenda' is underscoring 'billions of pounds of public contracts' in WhitehallBut it isn't just defence contracts where these KPIs have raised eyebrows. The politically correct rules account for 10 per cent of ministers' decisions over which suppliers to use.Farming companies must employ '50 per cent women or non-binary staff', and education suppliers should have a 'zero gender-pay gap'. Meanwhile, sub-contractors working in export financing have to show '33 per cent multicultural representation' in their advertisements – compared to the national average of below 20 per cent. And the Home Office even demands that asylum guards must provide 'customer satisfaction with cultural sensitivities'.Fred de Fossard, of the Prosperity Institute and author of its paper Woke Capitalism in Britain, said: 'Government procurement is increasingly used not to purchase competent services, but to socially engineer behaviour on issues ranging from gender balance to climate ideology.'But an MoD spokesman said: 'We are applying the social value model so it is more relevant for UK defence, ensuring contracts are appropriately incentivising suppliers and helping drive growth.'
